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Leaving Boulder

Flatirons, Boulder, Colorado Tomorrow, the Rocky Mountains eastern slope and the Boulder, Colorado, Flatirons, disappears.  I am glancing over my task list, which in the nature of task...
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Leaving Madison

We are leaving Madison.  Tonight we board Turkish Airlines flight 6 for Istanbul, Turkey, thence to Venice for a few days and onto Rovinj, Croatia. (more…)
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Arriving Rovinj

Patrice reported our travels from the United States through Venice here and here. We stayed in Venice five days.  Venice, even stormy, flooded and windswept, was charming, warm and inviting....
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Book Review, Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul by Robert Olen Butler:

While traveling these last two weeks via Istanbul, Venice and Trieste to Rovinj, Croatia I have been rereading Robert Olen Butler's Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel,  Hot Country  and its follow-on,...